Display container



April 1, 1952 Filed Feb. 18, 1947 C. W. MIDDLETON ET AL DISPLAYCONTAINER (Ittorrneg Patented Apr. 1, 1952 DISPLAY CONTAINER Carl W.Middleton, Larchmont, and Earl F. Middleton, New Rochelle, N. Y.

Application February 18, 1947, Serial No. 729,294

4 Claims. 1

The invention herein disclosed relates to a display container forarticles placed on sale.

Frequently, personal articles of various kinds. such for example, ascorsages, suspenders, handkerchiefs and the like, are packagedindividually in containers having transparent plastic covers. Displaypackages of this kind, as made prior to this invention, required thecementing of the plastic cover either to the bottom or frame or in theform of an envelope. Generally the assembly of such containers isexpensive due to the cementing operations.

An object of the invention herein disclosed is to provide a displaypackage or container of this kind that is held together by inexpensiveinterengaging elements so that no cementing is required.

The foregoing object and certain other objects and advantages that willhereinafter appear are realized in the display package illustrated inthe accompanying drawing and described below, from which description aclearer understanding of the invention may be had.

The drawing includes:

Fig. 1 which is an isometric view of a display package embodying theinvention;

Fig. 2 which is a transverse section of the same, on enlarged scale,taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 which is a fragmentary section, on enlarged scale of the endportion of the container; and

Fig. 4 which is an enlarged fragmentary plan illustrating the shape ofthe slots. in the cover.

The container or display package illustrated in the drawings consists ofa bottom I and a transversely convexed cover 2, and end walls 3 and 4.Ordinarily, the bottom. is made of card board and the end walls areintegral therewith extending perpendicular thereto at the end edgesthereof. Side flanges 5 and 6 are formed integral with the bottom andextend therefrom at an acute angle to lie against the cover. The sideflanges are comparatively narrow and at spaced intervals, longitudinallythereof, have tongues 1 formed or stamped therein. Each tongue consistsof a shank 8 and a wider head portion 9 which provides shoulders If) oneach side there of. The heads are curved as illustrated to readily enterslots in the cover as will more fully hereinafter appear.

The cover 2, desirably consists of a piece or sheet of transparentplastic, such as acetate. It is wider than the bottom I so that when theedges thereof engage the bottom at the junction of the side flanges andthe bottom it is transversely convexed and forms a compartment with thebottom. The length of the cover sheet is substantially equal to thelength of the bottom. At spaced intervals, to match the tongues 1, slotsH are cut in the sheet adjacent each side edge thereof. The slots are ofsuch as to receive the tongues and engage the shoulders It) after thehead of the tongue has been pushed through the slot.

Desirably the slots are as shown in Fig. 4 and include two portions, anelongated portion. l2 through which the head 9 of a tongue is readilyinserted and a shorter portion [3 slightly longer than the width of theshank 8 of a tongue. When the head of a tongue is inserted through thesection 12, the resiliency of the cover, particularly, in its convexposition causes the shank of the tongue to enter the portion [3 of theslot. The shoulders It] on the tongue then engage on either side of theportion [3 of the slot and so secure the cover to the bottom.

The end edges of the cover 2 have reenforcing beads l4 formed thereon tostififen the cover. Desirably the bead is formed, as shown in Fig. 3, atthe end of an offset I 5 and spaced from the shoulder it of the offset.In this way a groove is formed between the inturned bead I4 and theshoulder It. The edge of the end wall, such as the end wall 3, which iscurved to correspond to the curvature of the cover, is received in thisgroove.

In making the container, the cover and bottom are made separately. Thebottom, flanges and end walls are die cut from suitable card board andfolded to the shape shown. The offsets I5 and beads l4 may be formedcontinuously on a web of suitable width, and the cover out from thisweb. The slots are die out either simultaneously with the cutting of theweb into covers of suitable Width, or separately. The two parts are thenassembled together. The cover is bowed, as it is wider than the bottom.The tongues are inserted in the slots and the side edges of the coverengage the bottom, inside the flanges at the junctures between theflanges and the cover. One end wall may be snapped into thecorresponding groove in the cover and the other left free for insertingthe article. After the article is inserted the edge of the remainin end.wall is snapped into its groove in the cover.

From the foregoing description of the display container or packageillustrated in the drawing and described above, it will be apparent tothose skilled in the art that by this invention there is provided anattractive, strong and comparatively inexpensive display container.

It will be obvious that various changes may be made by those skilled inthe art in the details of the container illustrated in the drawing anddescribed above within the principle and scope of the invention asexpressed in the appended claims.

We claim:

1. A container of the kind described comprising in combination arectangular cardboard bottom having relatively narrow flanges extendingupwardly from the side edges thereof at an acute angle thereto,longitudinally spaced tongues formed in the flanges, each tongueincluding a shank and a head portion of greater horizontal width thanthe horizontal Width of the shank, end sections integral with the bottomand extending perpendicular thereto, each of said end 3. A container ofthe kind described comprising in combination a portion constructed ofcardboard and including a rectangular wall, side sections extendingperpendicular to the wall, each of said side sections having its upperedge curved in a plane perpendicular to said side wall, end flangesextending from the end edges of the wall at an angle thereto and tonguesformed on the flanges, each tongue including a shank and a head portionof greater horizontalwidth than the horizontal width of the shank, and atransparent plastic sheet of greater length than said wall extendingfrom end to end of the wall and 7 about the curved edges of said sidesections, the

plastic sheet having slots therein for receiving the tongues on theflanges, each slot including a horizontally elongated portion throughwhich the head of a tongue is readily inserted and a shorter portionslightly longer horizontally than the horizontal width of the shank of atongue and adapted to receive the shank.

4. A container of the kind described comprising in combination a portionconstructed of cardtongues is readily inserted and a shorter portionslightly longer horizontally than the horizontal width of the shank ofone of said tongues and adapted to receive the shank.

2. A container of the kind described comprisof the flanges and thebottom, whereby the cover is transversely convexed and forms acompartment with the bottom, the cover having slots therein forreceiving the tongues on the flanges, each slot including anhorizontally elongated portion through which the head of one of saidtongues is readily inserted and a shorter portion slightly longerhorizontally than the horizontal width of the shank of one of saidtongues and adapted to receive the shank, an outward offset at each endof the transparent cover, and an inturned bead at the end of the ofiset,the groove formed by the offset and bead receiving the curved edge of anend section.

board and including a rectangular wall, side sections extendingperpendicular to the wall, each of said side sections having its upperedge curved in a plane perpendicular to said side wall, end flangesextending from the end edges of the wall at an angle thereto and tonguesformed on the flanges, each tongue including a shank and a head portionof greater horizontal width than the horizontal width of the shank, anda transparent plastic sheet of greater length than said wall extendingfrom end to end of the wall and about the curved edges of said side,sections, the plastic sheet having slots therein for receiving thetongues on the flanges, each slot including a horizontally elongatedportion through which the head of a tongue is readily inserted and ashorter portion slightly longer horizontally than the horizontal widthof the shank of a tongue and adapted to receive thershank, the plasticsheet having a reenforcing bead along each side edge thereof engagingthe curved edges of the side sections whereby the side sections areretained in position by said head.

CARL W. MIDDLETON. EARL F. MIDDLETON.

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